The Israeli military has announced thousands of strikes in southern Lebanon since this war broke out. But the strike they announced earlier this morning is different. Rather than saying they are targeting a specific Hamas Hezbollah operative or responding to a specific rocket, [00:00:16] they announce what sounds like a broad effort to, in their words, degrade Hezbollah's capability and infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel is continuing to escalate war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with the IDF [00:00:33] bombing parts of southern Lebanon today. In fact, the latest reporting indicates that the IDF struck 100 missile launchers and other Hezbollah infrastructure, according to what they're saying, though, it's not clear yet if there were any casualties. IDF warplanes launched 70 separate airstrikes as of this moment. [00:00:54] Now, this follows two days, of course, of deadly attacks targeting mobile devices used by Hezbollah members. It began on Tuesday with pagers exploding and thousands of people getting injured as a result of that. And then the next day, on Wednesday of this week, walkie talkies exploded. [00:01:13] And as a result, now dozens of people have reportedly died, including some civilians. Now, today's attack on southern Lebanon involved airstrikes and artillery. The IDF struck, you know, as I mentioned, 100 missile launchers, [00:01:29] according to what the IDF is saying. IDF ground forces have not crossed the border yet. I say yet because I just think that the direction everything is going indicates that there will be troops on the ground in Lebanon. IDF troops, and potentially even American troops. [00:01:47] At some point, though, some troops IDF troops have been moved from Gaza toward Israel's border with Lebanon. Now, Israel announced the strikes this morning, just six minutes before Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah was due to give his first speech [00:02:03] since the attacks began two days ago. - And here is some of what he had to say. - To the thousands. Of pages were targeted by the Israeli enemy and detonated at the same. Time. [00:02:19] With this operation, the enemy crossed all rules, laws and red lines. It didn't care about anything at all. Not morally, not humanely, not legally. Nasrallah also vowed that Israelis would not be able to achieve [00:02:36] their goal of repopulating Israel's evacuated northern areas without ending its military aggression, and reiterated that Hezbollah will not stop before the aggression on Gaza stops. I want to pause there because it's really important to take that in. [00:02:51] Hezbollah didn't just attack Israel out of nowhere. Hezbollah began attacking Israel after Israel launched its military campaign and its aerial bombardment of Gaza. They want the bombing to stop, and Netanyahu has made a decision that he doesn't want the bombing to stop. [00:03:07] He wants to continue leveling Gaza, he wants to continue the aerial bombardments in Gaza, and he wants to escalate war with Lebanon and with with Hezbollah in Lebanon, of course. - Hey, don't scroll away. - Come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you [00:03:23] to lend your support to tight U power. Our honest reporting. You do it at tyt.com/team and we love you for it. And so you know you had this unbelievably frustrating debate about this issue on Piers Morgan's show yesterday. [00:03:39] And Israel denies that Hezbollah is in any way connected to what's happening in Gaza. Yeah. So the Israeli representative pretended that Hezbollah is attacking Israel out of nowhere for no reason at all. Just like I don't know why they could be possibly just, you know, attacking us when [00:03:58] we have done nothing wrong to Hezbollah or to Palestinian territories or anything? I don't know. I mean, it was it's it's so absurd. It's hard to wrap your mind around the propaganda that they tell people. I don't know if in in Israel they believe that, like, all their enemies just hate [00:04:16] Jews for no reason, and these wild anti-Semites are just attacking them when poor Israel, they've done nothing wrong. They've only occupied 5.5 million people and put them in open air camps. For 57 years. They only knocked down 70% of the buildings in Gaza and displaced 95% [00:04:35] of the citizens and killed 41,000 people. Poor Israel, their tiny little David against this Goliath, Palestinians that keep oppressing them. And now Hezbollah evil, monstrous terrorist Hezbollah for no reason at all, [00:04:50] picking on poor little Israel again. So now let me tell you the reality, because that's the I mean, if you believe that fantasy tale, you'll believe anything. So in reality, Hezbollah is doing this because of the occupation. They only say it in every single statement that they make. [00:05:06] And it is 100% because Israel is occupying Gaza and the West Bank. And they has Hezbollah been firing rockets into Israel? Definitely. And they started on October 8th. They were not part of the October 7th attacks. But once Israel started striking back, Hezbollah joined in retaliation. [00:05:25] Are they allied with Iran? Yes. Are they allied in some ways with Hamas? Yes. Okay. So should they fire rockets into Israel? No, of course not. Now, how did Israel react and what were the different things that happened? First of all, Hezbollah's rockets are barely do any damage at all. [00:05:43] For 11 months there was one rocket, according to Israel, that got through Iron Dome and killed those 12 Druse kids, which is an abomination. Okay. And so I don't want their rockets launched. I don't want them hitting anyone. I don't want anyone dying in Israel or in Lebanon or anywhere. [00:05:58] Okay, now, by the way, it was the Israel says that was Hezbollah. There were conflicting reports. I don't know, but it doesn't matter. It's not like Hezbollah wouldn't do it. They fire rockets in all the time. Okay. So, okay, so let's say that that you grant all of that. [00:06:15] Now, what is Israel been doing in return? So first of all, there was the assassination that they did in Beirut. That's the capital of Lebanon. They did a bombing, a couple of bombings, and they took out some of the Hezbollah leaders. [00:06:31] So they're bombing in a foreign capital and taking out their leaders. Okay, so that does massive damage. Then when Hezbollah says, well, obviously we have to retaliate. You just murdered some of our top leaders, and you've been, you know, attacking us in all these different ways, counterattacking. You could say if you're from Israel, right. [00:06:46] Hezbollah is firing the rockets. So then, at that point they go, okay, you know what? Before you even do your retaliatory strike, we're going to do a preemptive strike. So then Israel hits them again. So so far they've hit them twice without Hezbollah officially responding. [00:07:02] Now, isn't that weird because Hezbollah is firing rockets all the time. So what does Israel mean by a preemptive strike before Hezbollah actually responds? Hezbollah, quote unquote, responds all the time? Because what that means is we know that the normal responses from Hezbollah is basically marketing internal marketing in the Muslim world, in Lebanon, [00:07:20] and in their own ranks, because Hezbollah knows they're not going to hit anything, and we know they're not going to hit anything when they actually try to hit something. We did a preemptive strike because that one was real, right? It's not to say that the rockets don't exist, it's that both sides know that under normal situations, Hezbollah's rockets do nothing at all, and [00:07:37] Israel is not at all concerned about it. They moved 70,000 people out of the border areas, but overall, the rockets are not getting through. I mean, 1 in 11 months maybe. Okay, so now after the preemptive strike, Hezbollah finally does a retaliatory strike. That's real. Okay, it's it fails. But it was a real attempt to hit Israel. [00:07:57] Okay, so now it's 2 to 1. Then you have the major explosions, then you have the walkie talkie explosions now. So now it's 4 to 1 on real strikes of Israel versus Hezbollah. And now before again, now Hezbollah says, okay, now we're going [00:08:12] to really retaliate, right? And so they hit him again. They do the artillery and the airstrikes that Anna just described today. So now it's five, 6 to 1 in terms of strikes that could do damage. And every strike by Israel does damage because they have a real military. [00:08:30] Yeah. And the US backing them and providing them with weapons, which is also part of the reason why the retaliation that you'll see from both Hezbollah and a country like Iran, which has, in my opinion, even more of a military capacity and capability. [00:08:46] The reason why those retaliations are so weak is because they don't want this to escalate into a broader regional war. That's the most important point, because now when you look at what's coming next is not going to be fake. What Hezbollah and Iran are going to do next is going to be very real. [00:09:02] Okay. So you can tell the difference between fake and real based on the statements that they put out there. How America responds to it, how security experts respond to it when they're doing the fake strikes. And there goes who America goes, oh, that was not bad. Okay, good. They're not escalating. [00:09:19] America will say that. Right. And then they'll turn to Israel and say, please don't escalate. Please don't escalate. And Israel will go and spit right in the face of the American representative and escalate six times over. So, guys, the most important strike out of all of those was the pager strike. [00:09:34] Why? I mean, I just lost you a huge list, let alone the endless ineffective rockets by Hezbollah. The reason that's the most important is right before then, Israel had a decision to make that they pushed off for as long as humanly possible. Are you going to sign the ceasefire? Or are you not? [00:09:51] Because if they sign the ceasefire, then Hezbollah and Iran don't even. Iran is still waiting to retaliate for another strike that Israel did in Tehran and an assassination there. Right. So is Iran has not done a major retaliate. They tried one where they were like, wink, wink, we are coming. [00:10:07] Here's our drones. That was a purposely ineffective one because they didn't want to escalate. So now when the pager thing happened and you heard Nasrallah say it there, it crossed all red lines. That is Israel declaring war. We are not going to do a cease fire. [00:10:23] We are not going to do a peace deal. We're just going to invade you. We're going to do endless bombings. And now the last part and not only it wasn't, it wasn't just your words. The Israeli spokespeople said, we, our ground troops, have not crossed into Lebanon yet. Exactly. Yeah. [00:10:38] Okay. So you're. Look, guys, if you're Israeli, you're not going to listen to any of this. You're going to say they're savage terrorists, Muslims that are firing rockets at us all the time. They're peashooters. They're Their slingshots. But I don't care. I hate them, they're guilty by definition. [00:10:54] Right. But for the rest of us, there's no question that Israel is trying to agitate for a much larger war. They have done endless significant strikes. And by the way, I didn't even get into Damascus. Three foreign capitals they have attacked recently. [00:11:10] And no matter how overwhelming the evidence is, the minute that Hezbollah or Iran retaliates in a real way, you notice they keep throwing rockets and America doesn't really care that much because, as I said, it doesn't work and everybody knows it's not going to work. But if they have a real retaliatory strike and I don't know that they do [00:11:27] and they launch it, all of American media and the American government will flip in a minute and pretend that poor Israel got attacked for no reason. Oh my God, these blood thirsty, savage, violent Muslims. I just I need to understand. [00:11:42] Okay, so if you do support what the current Israeli government is doing by escalating this new front in this war. What is the end goal like? How? What are they trying to accomplish here? I know, I know what they're saying they're trying to accomplish. [00:11:59] We want Israelis to be able to go back to their homes. Hezbollah is a problem. Okay. So are they going to level Lebanon? Yeah. Like how how okay. Are they really they're going to do that too. Yeah. This is a disaster of epic proportions. Now, look, everything we just told you, do they. [00:12:16] Think that they're going to be safer in that part of the world after they do that? Some of them do. Yeah. - Well they're wrong. - Well of course they're wrong. So guys, let me just explain that real quick because, since we're not in their heads, it's so hard to understand why they think what they think. [00:12:35] Part of it is super easy. So Netanyahu, if he signed a cease fire deal, the right wing guys like Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan would leave his cabinet and then he'd go for election and he'd lose. So he put his own political career above. [00:12:52] Israel, above humanity, etc.. So that part's very easy to understand. And then secondly, here's the part people aren't talking about. But and I'm really worried about this because it is strategically correct if and only if you're Netanyahu, if he starts a war now before the US elections. [00:13:12] Well, the administration is it Democratic and the American people will say, and Netanyahu and Trump and everybody else will prod him to say, oh, Biden couldn't prevent the war. I mean, he could have, but he chose not to. Because of his obedience to Netanyahu. That's exactly right. [00:13:29] - But they will use that against them. - Successfully, by the way. And by the way, that part will not be entirely wrong. Joe Biden could have prevented this war. He could prevent this war today by saying, you do one more goddamn strike, Israel. We're pulling all the dollars because it's obvious you're trying to start a war. Every security analyst, every person with a brain that isn't super biased [00:13:47] knows you're trying to start this war. We know you're trying to start this one more and I'm pulling all the money, but he's not going to do that. So he is letting Israel start this war. And it might cost Kamala Harris the election. And if it does, Trump gets into office. And then Trump tells Netanyahu, do whatever the hell you like, okay? [00:14:03] Because he has already said that's what he's going to say. Just finish them quicker. And by the way. So sorry to interrupt you, but I think this is important for you guys to hear. So the State Department had a press conference today, and I was very curious to see how they were going to handle questions from reporters about Israel very [00:14:21] clearly escalating this war in Lebanon. And I was wondering, well, is the U.S. Going to back Israel, even though on one hand you hear everyone in the Biden administration saying, we're working around the clock for a cease fire. We want diplomatic means of ending all this. We do not want to escalate a war. [00:14:37] But on the other hand, you also listen closely to what they're saying during press conferences. - And here's what you'll get. - As the U.S. Prepared to back Israel if they are to escalate this on a northern front. So let me make one thing clear. We are committed to the defense of Israel against terrorist organizations, [00:14:55] but we don't want to see any party escalate this conflict period. Yesterday, Secretary Austin spoke by phone with his Israeli counterpart, Minister of Defense Galant, to review regional security developments and reiterate unwavering US support for Israel in the face of threats from Iran, Lebanese, Hezbollah [00:15:12] and Iran's other regional partners. And I'll remind you that, you know, the capability that we have in the region is more than we had on April 13th when Iran did launch that attack against Israel. So, you know, we're confident in the ability that we have there right now [00:15:27] to protect our forces and should we need to come to the defense of Israel as well. Okay. I want you all to remember the year 2016. So the presidential election, it's the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and the topic of Wall Street comes up and Hillary Clinton wanted to present herself [00:15:46] as someone who's tough on Wall Street. And she talked about going to the New York Stock Exchange, wagging her finger and saying, you stop this right now. Stop it right now. That's essentially what the Biden administration is doing in regard to their statements toward Israel and how they want to avoid a broader regional war. [00:16:05] They want to avoid the escalation, but we're ready and willing to provide you all the support you need to escalate the war. In fact, we will very likely risk members of our military to help defend your country from a war that you have escalated. - Yeah. - So the U.S. [00:16:21] Is clear. We're going to help Israel start this giant war in the Middle East. So later, when Biden and Kamala Harris get blamed for it, don't catch feelings because they could stop it right now. And they are absolutely, positively choosing not to stop this war [00:16:37] because they're so afraid. Oh my God, what will AIPAC do? My beloved donors? All right. If it costs you the election, don't come crying later and go, oh, there was nothing you could do. No, there's something you could do right now, and you're choosing not to do it. Okay, last thing is. [00:16:53] So you first of all, I should say, when they call them terrorist organizations, no problem. You want to call Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists, they kill civilians? Sure. No problem. Absolutely. Okay, well, when Israel kills 30 to 40 times the number of civilians. [00:17:08] Number of civilians. Is Israel a terrorist organization? No. How dare you? We're allowed to murder anyone we like. It's only when Muslims kill civilians that they're terrorists. Guys. Yeah. So. Okay. So, like. So that's why America with this total BS justification for the war. [00:17:27] Oh it's okay. They're dirty Muslim terrorists. We can kill 40 times the number of civilians. And we are beloved good defenders of Western civilization. No, by their own definition, Israel is a massive terrorist state and we are now about to help them invade Lebanon. [00:17:45] I have to say, one of the most disgusting developments in all of this is the media narrative that what Israel has done with the pagers and the walkie talkies is impressive and should be celebrated as like a technological, you know, feat. Oh my God, this is so, so precise. [00:18:03] You know, they're specifically targeting Hezbollah members, except we're talking about literally, literally thousands of little bombs going off throughout all of Lebanon, in grocery stores, in all sorts of civilian areas. [00:18:20] What if someone was on a commercial flight? - Are we serious right now? - Yeah, that's. And the whole everybody on the plane would have died. Kids are on the bombs. Died. They don't care. They've never cared about civilians. The whole idea of, like, being a moral army. [00:18:35] What a sick joke. A moral army killed a 25,000 Thousand women and children, a stadium full of women and children that they slaughtered while pretending to be moral. Okay, if you had done that to Israeli women and children, we would [00:18:51] have nuked Gaza and West Bank by now. And you all know it. You all look at what happened. 1200 Israelis died and people were justifiably outraged. If if 41,000 Israelis did that, if 25,000 little children and women [00:19:09] that were Israelis were butchered, you know, they would have obliterated every Palestinian in the world. But when you do it to Palestinians, it's not like their lives matter. They're just Muslims and Arabs. What is the end game that Anna asked about their neocons? I think that they're they're so deluded in their head they think it's going [00:19:29] to be easy, just like they thought Iraq was going to be easy. So they think, what's the big deal? We'll just, you know, obliterate Lebanon just like we did Gaza. And the world will do nothing. The world did nothing when we obliterated Gaza. There's almost no buildings left in Gaza. And the world didn't care at all. [00:19:46] And we got our dogs in America to tell everybody to back off. And we got a gift. We normally get 4 billion a year. This time they sent us 26. We got a giant thank you gift from America for annihilating Gaza. So we're going to do it to Lebanon, and we're going to get America [00:20:03] ensnared in this war because they're aircraft carriers. And et cetera are in here. And if a drone takes out an American ship, that's it. We're going to get America to fight our entire war for us, and we're going to have them finance the whole thing. But they are wrong. Wars don't go like that. Wars are unpredictable. [00:20:18] And next thing you know, they figure out a way around Iron Dome. And now it's not just the Muslims whose lives you don't value at all that are getting killed. It's the precious, precious Israeli lives. And then you're in neck deep in it. And now the US is neck deep in it. [00:20:33] And then they come yelling at us about how we oh, oh, oh, we owe them. We owe them more weapons. We owe them more money. We owe them more war. And I think that there's going to come a point around, and this is going to take forever. Guys, this is my prediction. Now we just gave you the facts and the analysis. My guess is by the year 2026, you will see massive uprisings [00:20:53] in America against Israel. Enough. Enough slaughter, enough spending our money on invading nearby countries, bombing them to no end, humiliating these people and oppressing them for decade after decade after decade. [00:21:10] So yeah, but we'll see what happens. But war is coming. Thanks for watching The Young Turks. Really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. [00:21:27] But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. Thank you.